Glenburn – Saturday morning at the Glenburn School, the Glenburn Rec hosted the second of it’s four travel basketball tournaments as teams from Bangor, Houlton, Dover, Ellsworth, and Old Town joined the host team Glenburn in the 3rd/4th grade girls tournament. In the first three games of the morning, it was Bangor defeating Glenburn 26-12, Foxcroft over Old Town 18-13, and Bangor nipped Houlton 37-36 through two overtimes and a sudden death. Emily Streams scored a game high 12 points and Abbie Quinn added six points in the 26-12 Bangor win over Glenburn. Kacey Gardner scored six points to...Click here to Continue this Article »

Hampden – Tuesday afternoon at Hampden Academy, the Oceanside Mariners overcame a third quarter deficit to pull out a 34-33 win over the Broncos in a Unified Basketball high school contest. The Maine Principles Association and Special Olympics Maine has partnered to develop and promote Unified Sports, and introduced the first ever MPA Unified Basketball season which began in January, 2015. According to the MPA’s website, Unified Basketball partners students with developmental disabilities (Unified Student Athlete) with students without developmental disabilities (Unified Student Partners) to train, compete, and represent their school. The game was played pretty evenly through the...Click here to Continue this Article »

Glenburn – For the second straight year, the Brewer 5/6 boys went 5-0 for the week end to claim the 2015 Glenburn Rec championship with a 45-38 victory over a solid Bucksport team. Brewer also won the 2014 championship with a 5-0 record, giving this same group of boys a 10-0 record in two Glenburn tournaments. Brewer overcame a half time deficit to Glenburn in the semifinal game by out scoring the Chargers 24-9 over the second half. A 10-0 run by Brewer in the third quarter took the wind out of the sail of Glenburn, as Brewer ran...Click here to Continue this Article »

Glenburn – Saturday morning at the Glenburn School, the Glenburn Rec opened the first of their four week-end travel league basketball tournaments starting with the 5th/6th grade boys. Teams in this years tournament are the host team Glenburn, Bangor, Old Town, defending champion Brewer, Gardiner, Bucksport, and two teams from Hampden. Through the first four games of the day, each of the winning teams cruised to their victory beginning with Glenburn defeating Bangor 35-24. Brewer knocked off Old Town 52-16, Hampden-Flannery cruised by Gardiner 40-22, and Bucksport breezed past Hampden-Henaghen 45-16. In game one, Glenburn led by five points...Click here to Continue this Article »

BANGOR—The Hermon Hawks dropped to 4-9 on the season when they traveled to Bar Harbor and lost by 18 to the powerful MDI Trojans on January 16th. Things have changed quite a bit for Hermon since that time. The 11th seeded Hawks opened up the 2015 Maine Principals’ Association basketball tournament with a 42-30 upset over third seeded Medomak Valley at the Cross Insurance Center on Friday evening. Hermon (10-10) has won six of their last seven games, including two consecutive in tournament play against teams that came in with a 14-4 record. The Hawks defeated John Bapst in...Click here to Continue this Article »

Bangor – The EMCC Men looked to rebound from their loss to UMPI last night against a one win Unity team, losers of their last twelve. This would be a must win for the Golden Eagles in their effort of making the YSCC Elite 8 Tournament. They are currently tied with UMA for the 8th and final spot in the tournament who have one game remaining against Hampshire. Unity kept pace for much of the first half mostly due to Sean Tocci from Bangor, Maine who was lights out from behind the arc. Tocci scored 22 of his 31...Click here to Continue this Article »